this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
62 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
22874 readers
406 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I am going to try Lemon8, but I still am not convinced that TikTok will actually get banned. I think that ByteDance probably had some kind of contingency plan to sell last minute as a last resort and we will see that happen sometime before 1/19.
I don’t know, I think it’s a done deal snd they would’ve sold by now. I don’t want to use a TikTok owned by some American billionaire anyway.
They're actively hiring in the US. I seriously doubt they're getting banned
Is that "active hiring" actually active hiring, or is it the fake "active hiring" where they're just collecing resumes for a database and real jobs for those advertisements don't really exist?
I know a guy interviewing with them today, so I'd hope they aren't stringing him along haha
I kinda hope they're not bluffing.
China has a law on the books preventing them from selling the algorithm though no? Most they could do is sell the userbase, existing content, name, etc. And the reason most people like it in the first place of course is because of the superior ability to curate your own wants compared to western apps which push their own thing. Also the lack of censorship as bad as Zuck and Musk-land.
I honestly hope they don't buckle. This is a test case, if they do buckle the US will be encouraged to do this kind of bullying to all kinds of Chinese companies. If they refuse to bow and end up banned at least the US knows this gangster-ism has to go all the way and all they reap is lack of competition not the actual fruits of the company which are simply taken home.